Between You & Me

Confessions of a Comma Queen

“For years I thought that, because Mary Norris and I are both from Cleveland, she shared her amazing knowledge of grammar only with me. Now I see she’s letting the whole world in on it. I guess that’s okay. Her book is so smart and funny and soulful and effortlessly illuminating, and she herself is so generous and great—what else could she do? Still, I wish she’d told me.” Ian Frazier

“Mary Norris brings a tough-minded, clear-eyed, fine-tuned wisdom to all the perplexities and traps and terrors of the English sentence.” Adam Gopnik

“Mary Norris is a grammar geek with a streak of mischief, and her book is obscenely fun.” Marilyn Johnson

“This is as entertaining as grammar can be. Very very. Read it and savor it.” Garrison Keillor

“It’s a three-fer: an entertaining memoir, a lighthearted but truly useful book on grammar and style, and a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of one of American’s great literary institutions.”
Ruth Walker, Christian Science Monitor

“A charming, funny, fascinating-fact-filled book. If you judge a book by the number of times you have to stop and tell whoever is sitting next to you something about what you just read, then this book will rank highly.”
Lisa McLendon, Wichita Eagle

“Hilarious. . . . This book charmed my socks off.”
Patricia T. O’Conner, New York Times Book Review